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How to add a Private Podcast to Podcast Apps
How to add a Private Podcast to Podcast Apps

Make it easy for your subscribers to subscribe to your private podcast with this handy guide to all the apps that support private podcasts!

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Written by Sam Higham
Updated over a week ago

So you've created your private podcast, and now you want to invite your subscribers to listen to it. But, unlike public podcasts, you can't tell people to listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, etc.

Well, actually, you can, with your subscribers being able to add your show to their preferred app on the various podcast apps that support this option.

To make it easy for your subscribers to listen to your episodes, we've put together this guide on how to add a private podcast to these podcast apps that do support private feeds.

Add to Apple Podcasts (on Mac desktop and iTunes on PC)

  • Click File on the Apple Podcasts menu.

  • Click Add Show by URL.

  • Paste your unique URL into the box.

  • Click Subscribe.

Add to Apple Podcasts (on iOS)

  • In the icons list at the bottom of your display, click Library.

  • Click the 3 dots icon at the top right.

  • Click Follow a Show by URL.

  • Paste your unique URL into the box.

  • Click Follow.

Add to Google Podcasts (on Android)

  • In the bottom menu, click Library

  • In the menu, click Subscriptions

  • Click the link icon at the top right

  • Paste your unique URL into the Subscribe to a podcast by RSS feed box

  • Click Subscribe

Add to Pocket Casts

  • Click Discover in the bottom menu.

  • Paste your unique URL into the Search box at the top of the screen.

  • Click your podcast artwork.

  • Click Subscribe.

Add to Castbox

  • Click Discover in the bottom menu.

  • Paste your unique URL into the Search box at the top of the screen.

  • Click your podcast artwork.

  • Click Subscribe.

Add to Overcast

  • Click the "+" icon in the top menu.

  • Click Add URL.

  • Paste your unique URL into the box.

  • Click Done.

Add to Podcast Addict

  • Click the "+" icon in the top menu.

  • Click the Search icon in the top menu.

  • Paste your unique URL into the search box.

  • Click Search.

  • Check the Private feed box.

  • Click Add.

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